You both have a tie with 4 words. ha ha ha did not count on that hahahahah Theresa posted first and has 11 words all together. Eloise you got 8 words and posted second. So I can not ignore your effort and making it before midnight and you too will get a little something. CONGRATULATIONS to you BOTH!! Nothing discoraged you from keep on wrecking your brains. thanks gals. Please remember to send me your addresses if I do not have them already. EVERY PLAYER please. HUGS Lucy P.S. If any of you find any mistakes, let me know. 1. Nicolaus = Santa Claus 2. Cookies 3. x mas tree 4. rabbit 5. cake 6. chocolate 7. heart 8. socks 9. flower pot t - shirt x mas ornament cell phone hat pipe snowman star angel Boots candle CD camera nutcracker pencil sharpener playing cards Ball This are the words that I had given the pictures. I hope I was flexible enough with em all.. Like the balls men like to play with rofl.

Let's just say that I've lost 25 lbs this spring. It is GOOD for you, if the back can take it. I have too much else to do potting things, to worry about providing shade for the unused (by hosta) space at the north end of my garden. So, taking matters in my own hands, I called the folks who put in the privacy fence around the garden. I explained what I wanted. A 10 foot tall sturdy latticed wall with 2 passageways at each end of a 40-45 foot long pergola/shade thingy which will have a T on top like telephone poles to throw out a bit more shade and give a frame for my vines to cover it. Vines are a whole lot quicker to grow than trees, and I don't want to shade the entire space for the entire day. We have to allow for morning sun, and just keep the blooming afternoon sun off the hosta. The openings on the lattice will be squares, not diamonds, and quite sturdy to accommodate the heavy nature of some vines. I've seen wisteria with a main trunk big around as a tree, squeezing the life out of the structure supporting it. It will provide the final section of wall for the hosta garden, making the entire 100 foot long garden mostly safe from the killing summer afternoon sun. Yet, it will let me SEE the garden from the deck. Oh, I have some great ideas and I do so thank my DH for egging me on with creating this paradise of a garden right on our own little city lot. One entry to the garden I've already named "Stargate" which is the place for visitors to enter, when we have any. That's where the streaker 'Stargate' hosta will be with a suitable icon identifying it. Then the other gate, over by the Teahouse entry, is the "Moongate" with my little Maltese's Moon Walk to keep his feet dry, bless his heart, and there will be the Moonlight Mirage, Moonlight Sonata, Moon Struck, and other such hosta. Each "gate" will be 4 foot wide, and I can pass through with my dolly and wagon hauling piles of mulch bags, bark bags, and loads of heavy pots on the way to the perfect spot. This pergola will be the crowning glory, the formalized look of a walled garden, a secret place, a paradise. I often think that in the Bible when God placed Adam and Eve on this earth, he put them in a garden. God's idea of Paradise on earth is a garden. It feels that way to me, and that is the concept I hope to achieve. Back there, the feeling is of peace, joy, the dropping away of the mundane world. I can hope for nothing better than this.

Jon-When I lived in Arkansas I knew a lot of people who regularly rode horses. But I only knew ONE who always rode a mule; never a horse. The mules name was Willie. I commented one day since mules have a reputation of being "difficult" in a way few horses are, it surprises me that he rode Willie all the time. His reply made perfect sense to me. He said "Awe, Willies OK. You just have to smack a mule as hard as you can, right between its eyes with a 4 x 4, to get its attention first." It made sense because I never tried to ride a mule. The topic was not about killing a hosta to prevent HVX, or any other virus for that matter, from spreading. It was about what commericial growers, retailers, hybridizers, TCers, etc. actually do with their waste. Since we ALL CONCEDED it can be spread from hosta roots left in growing medium, it posed the question: Is it wise for them to recycle their hosta potting materials and waste by composting? I'd already conceded that I only presumed this is what they do with it, based on the piles I had seen, and was open to enlightenment. At the outset I had invited any growers, etc. to take part in this discussion. It illicited Chris and Rob to participate. Now they are not. I am afraid the string has been severed, repeatedly, and can't be recovered. I give up-Jon. Its your field now. Go ahead and run with it with my blessings! I have one statement to make to you JON, and will not respond if you have a comeback. During much of MY lifetime, engineers based much work on the hypothesis that the electron, proton, and neutron were the most fundimental elements of matter. This hypothesis was dealt with as if it were fact and the basis for much progress, while it was commonly accepted it was a very consistent hypothesis. Now we KNOW (at least I do), of course, that it was not fact. We learned this as scientific researchers developed greater technology that disproved the hypothesis. Their work is applauded, and their success was achieved because they DID NOT ACCEPT IT AS FACT and looked for better answers for unsolved questions. SO MUCH FOR ENGINEERS ONLY DEALING WITH FACT, NOT HYPOTHISIS(as your opinion clearly stated). This experience has created no hard feelings towards you on my part. I am frustrated because the question has not been answered. Back to Hosta Forum! Les

Katie, I am sorry yours was broken. I was taking a chance mailing without a bubble envelope but it would have cost 249 each to do so and didn't think those little sticks were worth that. LOL I can't believe your hubby ate that either. Mine would do the same though. Margo